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...point where one should cease mincing words in the alas so frequently graceless minuendo of academic debate, and say simply and brutally, this stinks? Barrington Moore, Jr., Lecturer on Sociology
...members signing the statement of faith were: Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology; Herbert Dieckmann, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages; Franklin L. Ford, professor of History; Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English and Comparative Literature; Perry G. E. Miller; professor of American Literature; and Barrington Moore, Jr., lecturer on Sociology...
Alma questions the neighbors about Cliff and at first gets the expected tame responses. But Faye Laird bursts unexpectedly into tears and her dotty old mother insults Alma. Wealthy, widowed Mrs. Barrington clearly knows more than she will say. Strangest of all are the talks with epicene Willard Baker and the peculiar young man who lives with him. As rumors build slowly into facts, Boyd impatiently tries to stop Alma from digging into events that "should have been for gotten long ago." But Alma is a woman who must finish what she starts, and she rips frantically at the curtain...
...Alma finally discovers how little she had really known the boy who grew up in her house, another telegram confirms his death in battle. "I only loved him," she mourns. "I never knew him." But to love someone is enough. Mrs. Barrington tells her, "that's all we dare hope for in this life." The "record" of Cliff's life, containing only a few tentative sentences, is wrapped in tissue paper and locked away in a drawer. Boyd and Alma, who have now become "permanently and very old, their correct age." sit in the dark staring...
ALBERT W. WEBER Barrington...